Tortilla Sun Comparison

In the passages Confetti Girl by Diana López and Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes, the narrators and the parents have different opinion on what is the right thing to do, and because of their different opinions, tension and distance in their relationship is created. The narrators in both passages feel alone or left out either because of the lack of attention of because they are missing a beloved parent. In both passages the narrators feel uncomfortable with the parent and is not fully opening up to them. In the sections Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, the different opinions between the two narrators and parents create distance and tension in their relationship.

In some cases, the parents are too protective towards their children. An example is a parent in chapter one of the book who causes a drama with the teacher (Lawrence-Lightfoot, 2003). He used an issue, which had been discussed

In “Confetti Girl” by Diana Lopez and “Tortilla Sun” by Jennifer Cervantes are about two different points of views from the kids and parents, causing tension. “Confetti Girl” is about a girl who disagrees with her dad about her school work. She wants to play and focus on soccer, but her dad wants her to focus on her schoolwork. In “Tortilla Sun” is also about a girl who disagree with a parent. Her mother is going away to Costa Rica to finish her studies and she has to send her daughter to live with her grandmother she barely knows in New Mexico. In these two stories the children are disagreeing with their parents’ better judgments. I believe that what caused the tension is that the parents and kids aren’t agreeing on the same thing so it causes tension.

Conflict was used effectively in the short story to reveal the theme of the story. The boy has an internal conflict about which parent to stay with, and because his father left, he seemed to have favored him. He wanted him back so badly that every night, he watches him on the six o’clock news while wearing his old jackets. He was blinded by his father’s sudden departure that he forgot about what is really important. Additionally, another development in the short story’s conflict has been used effectively to reveal the theme. When the boy went to Macdonald’s to see his father’s true colors, he thought: “I finished my drink quickly, thankful that he had to be back in the studio for the news.” By the time he saw his dad for the first time in a while, he knew he was not the man he thought he was. At that moment, he also realized that he lost sight of what he had all this time: His mother’s unconditional love. If it wasn’t for the characterization of

In the passages Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun both children have different points of view then their parents. This creates tension between the two throughout the entire passage.

The novels, Tortilla Flat and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck are similar yet different. The theme, character, and symbols were identical and distinctive.

The stories Confetti Girl by Diana Lopez and Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes share many similarities; the most significant one being that the protagonists have different opinions than their parents. In the stories, the kids’ relationships with their parents causes tension in the conflict. The differences in points of view cause problems in Confetti Girl with the dad’s interest in education over a good lifestyle, and in in Tortilla Sun when the mom wants to send Izzy away to New Mexico.

Based off of the point of views of the children, the reader can tell what the struggles are. In Tortilla Sun, the daughter has issues comprehending that he mother was going away for a whole summer to finish her university. The girl takes this as that her mom is putting herself first because in both stories, one parent is gone. This leaves Izzy, the daughter, hurt and non-content with her mom’s choice. In Confetti Girl, the young girl’s day starts off well until her father brings up conversations about his job. Things having to do with English. The daughter does not enjoy English and believes it should spoken only about at school. The father ignores that and continues on ditching his not well cooked dinner to find books, and dedicates his questions to reading and vocabulary. The daughter feels suffocated in the dad’s job and not her own hobbies. The two stories are different by in Confetti Girl, the parent’s selfish ways is mild compared to the one in Tortilla Sun. The dad in one does not leave the daughter which has it not too horrid to deal with. In the other story, the mother is leaving for a whole summer just to pursue her study. Tortilla Sun has a worse situation than in Confetti Girl. Children learn from their parents and if you show them to ignore what they think they might do that to their own children. Since in both stories, their is one missing

A boy is dragged to the grocery store by his mom. Every aisle he passes he pulls something off the shelf and pleads to his mom, “Can I get this please, please, please, please?” Of course the mom says “no” and ignores the interests of her child. The boy becomes upset that her mom won’t let him get anything he wants and for the rest of the shopping trip, there is tension between the two. Similarly, in the passages Confetti Girl by Diana Lopez and Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes, both narrators are having conflict with their parents. Lina and her father don’t see eye to eye; likewise, Izzy and her mother don’t see eye to eye over a problem. In Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, both narrators’ conflicts create tension between themselves and their parents.

The father and mother’s personalities and expectations clash harshly against each other, even before the conflict is

In the stories of “Confetti Girl” and “Tortilla Sun”, the girls had different views from the parents. Write an essay analyzing how these differences in point of view created tension between the narrator and their parents. Both of these stories caused a lot of conflict because the girls wanted to do something different from the parents. In “Confetti Girl” by Diana López the girl never wanted to do her homework so she left her homework in her locker at school and when her dad asked if she had any homework she would tell him she left it in her locker but her dad had copies of stuff she had to do for homework but Confetti Girl never wanted to do the homework and her dad wanted her to so this caused a lot of tension on both Confetti Girl and the

Sometimes the parents are not ready for the truth, even if the children are. Fiction helps us imagine what we can go through as a parent and how should deal with this as children. On page 221,

Have you ever had tension between you and someone who you loved but they didn’t understand you? In two books, the narrators had tension with one of their parents who didn’t know what they wanted. In the book Confetti Girl by Diana Lopez, the narrator is left with only her father who seemed to not care about her. The book Tortilla Sun states how the narrator, Izzy, is being sent to Mexico for the summer because her mom is leaving her for her own education. In both of the stories Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, the narrators both have tension built between them and a parent.

In her short story "Two Kinds," Amy Tan utilizes the daughter's point of view to share a mother's attempts to control her daughter's hopes and dreams, providing a further understanding of how their relationship sours. The daughter has grown into a young woman and is telling the story of her coming of age in a family that had emigrated from China. In particular, she tells that her mother's attempted parental guidance was dominated by foolish hopes and dreams. This double perspective allows both the naivety of a young girl trying to identify herself and the hindsight and judgment of a mature woman.

The resentment within the young girl’s family is essential to the novel because one can understand the young girl better as she makes her decision.